Firefox Nears 30% of Worldwide Market Share

[Rart]

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1442/firefoxb.jpgFirefox Nears 30% of Worldwide Market Share
April 2, 2010

" Mozilla this week released its first ever quarterly analyst report and according to Mozilla, Firefox is accounting for nearly 40 percent of the browser market share in Europe and nearly 30 percent worldwide.

Mozilla's numbers are a combination of market share numbers from StatCounter, Quantcast, Net Applications, and Gemius. For each continent, the company calculated an average of the figures reported by these sources and used this figure as the percentage. Mozilla says the number of Firefox users noted in parentheses for each continent is an estimate based on its own metrics.


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Market share aside, Mozilla also provided some interesting data about its users in the United States. By looking at the distribution of daily Firefox “update” pings from users, the company took a week’s worth of data and broke it down by hour and then by state to see which states are more likely to start up Firefox at any given time. From the looks of things, people in New York appear least likely to start up their browser during the 6 a.m., 7 a.m., and 8 a.m. hours. People in Hawaii appear to be most likely to start using their browser during the 6 a.m., 7 a.m., and 8 a.m. hours.


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If you're looking for an East Coast vs. West Coast comparison, it looks a little something like this.


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The study contains a bunch of other interesting bits and pieces, like how many tabs the average user has open (average of 2 and 3 but one user had 600 open at once) and which country in the world is more into add-ons and personalizing their browsers. "

:source: Source: Firefox Nears 30% of Worldwide Market Share (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Firefox-Internet-Explorer-IE9-Safari-Chrome,news-6343.html):view: Homepage: Tom's Guide (http://www.tomsguide.com):down: Download Link: Analyst Report (https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/e/ed/Analyst_report_Q1_2010.pdf)

[The_Martinator]

Go FF!! :P

[darkstate]

I was a hard core Firefox user, no question it is good - lots of great 3rd party plugins etc for it plus the security benefits and so on, but Chrome is the one to watch. I'm loving that browser (yes I know it's another incarnation of the same engine that Safari uses but what the hell!)

[Aum]

I was a hard core Firefox user, no question it is good - lots of great 3rd party plugins etc for it plus the security benefits and so on, but Chrome is the one to watch. I'm loving that browser (yes I know it's another incarnation of the same engine that Safari uses but what the hell!)

Safari using Webkit doesn't make it bad at all. Safari is in fact a good browser (in OSX), but Chrome is superior than anything on any OS.

Anywho cheers to Firefox.

I hope Mozilla fixes the memory leaks soon, because by the time my Firefox loads I check my Gmail with Google Chrome.

[Twig]

I'm not surprised by these numbers. Now with chrome out it may change.

[Radon0r]

Hmm, maybe I should check out Chrome. I've been using FF for a while now and I like it a lot, but I'm always up for something better. ;)

[anoneemuse]

it was a free browser .. isnt it ?

what does it have to do with share and stuffs

[Rart]

it was a free browser .. isnt it ?

what does it have to do with share and stuffs

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[iLOVENZB]

I'm not surprised by these numbers. Now with chrome out it may change.

Only problem with Chrome is this constant "The webpage is not available" (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=117805).

[Unthinkable]

Firefox FTW :x

[SonsOfLiberty]

I was a hard core Firefox user, no question it is good - lots of great 3rd party plugins etc for it plus the security benefits and so on, but Chrome is the one to watch. I'm loving that browser (yes I know it's another incarnation of the same engine that Safari uses but what the hell!)

Safari using Webkit doesn't make it bad at all. Safari is in fact a good browser (in OSX), but Chrome is superior than anything on any OS.

Anywho cheers to Firefox.

I hope Mozilla fixes the memory leaks soon, because by the time my Firefox loads I check my Gmail with Google Chrome.

Memory leaks? I beat your like me and have a thousand webpages open when you close it and have thousands of add-on, extensions, and themes installed....it take time to lot that shit, Chrome of course doesn't have the extra add-ons, I'm sure if it did, and people had tons of em' it would bog down Chrome to, actually I'm in Chrome right now, sure it's faster, but there are some pages this browser doesn't like and not to mention it doesn't have "NoScript" :)

[iLOVENZB]

@SOL: I found this

Speed up browsing by disabling functionality. When you want to surf Flash-free, Java-free, or even Javascript-free (even though that's not really the point of Chrome, but whatever), there's a list of -disable Chrome startup switches that can block plug-ins, content, or features you don't want, like:



-disable-dev-tools
-disable-hang-monitor
-disable-images
-disable-java
-disable-javascript
-disable-logging
-disable-metrics
-disable-metrics-reporting
-disable-plugins
-disable-popup-blocking
-disable-prompt-on-repost


Source: http://lifehacker.com/5045904/the-power-users-guide-to-google-chrome

Chrome now have extensions (https://chrome.google.com/extensions), although not many are available at the moment there are still some gems, one being AdBlock+ (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/chmimgmjdabgiilljdjfbonifbhiglao)

I also love how chrome has support for translating sites on the fly.

I think I might convert to Chrome from FF. Sadly the Bookmark support is nowhere near as good as FF.

[yuit]

Good for Mozilla.

I have firefox open 24x7, so I'm not sure how those update statistics work out...

I like Google, but I think they're getting too big. Nice to have choices from different companies.

[lionz123]

nice to know that as i am also like firefox.
but i use all the three browser most.
firefox / opera / chrome

[djnoxious]

It dosn't suprise me. Firefox is amazing. Hasn't let me down yet

[voices]

if no firefox = no internet browser

[letemfree]

FireFox is the best not only it provide best security but also a huge collection of plugins to choose from.
Also firefox has the community backing those are constantly striving to make it better.

[8dc]

Good job firefox, keep going until 50% above market share

[icyboy]

FF is still the most powerful now!

[Mikity]

Good job FF, keep on going from strength to strength!
Still my favourite browser.

[fileshatra]

Go FF! But you use too memory yet......

[mtow24]

ummm... hello? chrome has the fastest speeds...

[heiska]

Fuck google. We have the google search, google email, google ads, google mobile OS, google browser, google project hosting, the google text newsgroup browsing etc etc etc.

Im sick of this google bs. Firefox is better because it's not fking google.

I actually miss the days when people still used ask.com, altavista and the search engine by my ISP, the days when my IT teacher didn't know how to spell google.